School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Cnoc na Góla, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 036
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- (continued from previous page)John Brett
- When the cloth was spun it was sent to the weaver to be woven into linen.
When the weaver gets the yarn he has to wind it on spools and put them on sherns to make "wasp" for the web. (warp in the threads that go lengthwise)
Every pound of yarn is supposed to make a yard and half.
The size of the "loom" (or the weaving machine) is six feet long, five feet wide, six feet high.
It is composed of a number of things. A yarn beam, a cloth beam, breast beam, the slaise, an upper ball, an under ball, the rocking tree, the temples for keeping the breadth in the cloth, two treadles, two lambs, two spring shafts, a shuttle, reed, and geers, and a seat bench.
The warp is left on the centre of the loom,(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick Mulvey
- Gender
- Male
